On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:04:33AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Hello, > > a project I am working on consists of different hardware modules, which > can be combined in a lot of variations (not at runtime, though). As each > module shall contain an I2C-eeprom, the idea is now to put a fragment of > a FDT-blob into that EEPROM and let the bootloader combine these > fragments. Such an approach was also sketched by David Gibson recently. > (http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-February/051630.html) > > (As a sidenote, I am not quite sure and could not find anything about > what the mentioned 'fdt_graft' should actually do, in my case something > like a 'fdt_add_blob_subnode' function would be sufficent, I guess.)
fdt_add_blob_subnode() sounds like it would do the same thing as I
envisaged fdt_graft() doing.
> My question: Is there already an effort towards such an approach to
> which I could contribute, or do I have to start from scratch?
I don't know of anyone who's implemented this specifically, but if you
do get there first, please do it on top of libfdt.
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